{"product_id":"television-in-the-age-of-radio-modernity-imagination-and-the-making-of-a-medium-9780813562698","title":"Television in the Age of Radio Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This brilliant example of a materialist analysis of technology shows how the fevered fantasies of television's early years were 'acts of invention as real as soldering together circuits in a lab.'\" -- Thomas Streeter * author of The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet *\u003cbr\u003e\"With valuable scholarship, Sewell provides a useful corrective to the existing account of the prehistory of television and illuminates the formative processes of television as a medium.\" -- Alexander Russo * author of Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio beyond the Networks *\u003cbr\u003e\"Philip Sewell’s exploration of radio-era television powerfully illuminates a formative chapter in the medium’s history, one with special relevance today as the constellation of practices called television continues to transform.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- William Uricchio * Massachusetts Institute of Technology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Sewell explores the history of US television's development into what was to become a mainstay of society. Recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTelevision in the Age of Radio\u003c\/i\u003e effectively establishes a rich, revised history of the development of television as a cultural formation. It offers insight beyond the surface-level policy and commercial power struggles and impacts to reveal a deep history of whom, how, and what made television what it was when released as a consumer product.\" * Journal of Communication *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTelevision in the Age of Radio\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how imagination precedes and influences invention, how America's cultural conversation shaped technology, how corporate interests steered American television in a direction so unlike that of British television.\" * Journal of American Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Substance of Things Hoped For\u003cbr\u003e1. Questions of Definition\u003cbr\u003e2. Engendering Expertise and Enthusiasm\u003cbr\u003e3. Programming the System for Quality\u003cbr\u003e4. Seeing Around Corners\u003cbr\u003eConclusions: Why Not Quantity Television?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405784457559,"sku":"9780813562698","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813562698.jpg?v=1730493607","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/television-in-the-age-of-radio-modernity-imagination-and-the-making-of-a-medium-9780813562698","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}